RESEÑA de : Newman, Judie. The Ballistic Bard. Postcolonial Fictions. London : Arnold, 1995

Galkinius nom.nov., replacement name for Galkinia Ross & Newman, 1995.

In 1995, Ross & Newman proposed Galkinia as a replacement name for Utinomia Galkin, 1986 (Cirripedia: Pyrgomatidae), which was pre-occupied. However, this author discovered Galkinia was itself pre-occupied by a genus of fossil fish, Galkinia Ghekker, 1948 (Actinopterygii: Pholidophoriformes). Galkinius is herein proposed as a replacement name for Galkinia Ross & Newman, 1995, to preserve the re...

Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India

This ethnographic study explores the implications of romance reading for young Indian women’s gender, class, and national identities in one urban setting in South India. The project demonstrates that the practice of reading Western romance fiction is deeply embedded within patriarchal discourses of feminine respectability that exert control over women’s sexuality. Young women’s fascination for ...

An improved lower bound for the de Bruijn-Newman constant

In this article, we report on computations that led to the discovery of a new Lehmer pair of zeros for the Riemann ζ function. Given this new close pair of zeros, we improve the known lower bound for de Bruijn-Newman constant Λ. The Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to the assertion Λ ≤ 0. In this article, we establish that in fact we have Λ > −1.14541×10−11. This new bound confirms the belief t...

Jornal de Pneumologia 1995-1998

1. Disciplina de Pneumologia, Departamento de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo (SP) Brasil. Are you glad to have been appointed Editor? You will spend all of your already scarce free time on it, you will not think about anything else, you will lose some of your friends, and you will not make any new ones... Those were the words that Lock(1) said to me when I was about to b...

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